Numbers 31:17 References

17 "aNow therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately.

a Deuteronomy 7:2, Deuteronomy 20:16-18


Deuteronomy 7

2 and when the Lord your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, athen you shall utterly destroy them. bYou shall make no covenant with them cand show no favor to them.

Deuteronomy 20

16 "aOnly in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes.
17 "But you shall utterly destroy them, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has commanded you,
18 so that they may not teach you to do aaccording to all their detestable things which they have done for their gods, so that you would bsin against the Lord your God.